Ray Bradbury | 1920 - 2012

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Ray Bradbury in 1923 in Waukegan, Ill. "When I was born in 1920," he said in 2000, "the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things."

The author in 1950. Bradbury wrote more than 27 novels and story collections — including "The Martian Chronicles," "Fahrenheit 451," "Dandelion Wine," and "Something Wicked This Way Comes" — and more than 600 short stories.

Ray Bradbury, author of such science fiction and fantasy classics as "The Martian Chronicles," "Fahrenheit 451," "Dandelion Wine" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes," has died in Los Angeles. He was 91.